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Do you have a WordPress problem you can't figure out? Why not let our experts show you how.

We hope these Posts may be useful for you. If you have any feedback, problems, enhancements, or websites where you have used these -- please leave a comment on the post.

Code Snippets are solutions we have come up with to solve website development problems or ways to add enhanced features and functionality.

Some of the solutions are generic to WordPress (and Gutenberg blocks), but most are pertinent to developers working with Genesis themes and Beaver Builder plugins.

We are sharing these in the hope that what worked for us may help you in your development projects.

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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she […]

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This is a test for Jetpack’s Tiled Gallery. Install Jetpack to test. This is some text after the Tiled Gallery just to make sure that everything spaces nicely.

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Link: St. Louis Blues Audio shortcode:

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WordPress Category Hierarchy This video, by Tom Johnson of I’d Rather Be Writing explains the different files that make up the template of your WordPress blog. Templates discussed include index.php, single.php, category.php, tag.php, search.php, author.php, and more. Posted as per the instructions in the Codex.

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VideoPress, especially as a video post format, usually provides some unique styling issues. You will need to install Jetpack or Slim Jetpack plugin to turn the shortcode into a viewable video.

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Matt Mullenweg on KTEH “This is Us!” Matt Mullenweg founded WordPress to “democratize publishing for the world.” In his interview with “This is Us!”, Matt explains the community-focused business philosophy behind the amazing success of WordPress. Learn more about WordPress Embeds.

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Remove the unwanted padding on Gutenberg video block displayed in Beaver Themer templates

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If you use Beaver Themer to layout single post pages and format the post content using the Gutenberg Block Editor you notice when embedding a video that the “Resize for smaller devices” switch is enabled by default on video blocks. The purpose of this setting is to maintain the original […]

How to add CSS to control elements on the back end of your WordPress site

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Let’s say you want to style the dashboard, or hide an element that normally shows when editing a Post using display:none;. Even if you can discover the CSS selector using your browser’s inspector and test out your custom styling, you can’t just copy and paste that into the WordPress Customizer. […]

Shorten the length of the log file for Simple History plugin

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The Simple History plugin default history period is 60 days. The log includes not only user initiated changes to the website, but all the automated updates to plugins, etc. This can make the log file pretty large.

A bit of PHP to preserve html formatting in standard WordPress excerpts

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If you don’t use the Excerpt field in your posts and rely on WordPress to grab the first few dozen words of your post content what you usually find is the excerpt when displayed on the front end (usually in some sort of archive or post grid display) will have […]

How to add custom post types to your default RSS feed

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RSS readers are somewhat old school in 2020, but the RSS feed that is part of WordPress is used by email services like Mailchimp and Mailerlite to create automated email updates when you add a new post to your website. If you have custom post types though, they are not included […]

Storing javascript in a metabox.io Custom Field textarea

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For some client projects I needed to embed javascript code in a page (Post). I used a custom field textarea to insert the code when creating the Post. The problem was the default for text fields was to run them through a sanitizer.php to strip out any type of code […]

Create a Scrolling Column with trivial CSS

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The client wanted to display a list of past events in a scrollable column. This was easy to implement using simple css. The page layout was done with Beaver Builder, but the solution should work for any html container.

Changing a Submenu to a Mega-menu with Beaver Builder

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Sometimes you want to present a navigation menu as a horizontal “mega-menu” instead of a hierarchal dropdown menu. This is really simple if you are using Beaver Builder. The mega-menu feature is built in, but is unfortunately hidden. You have to know the secret to turn it on.

Formatting a custom number field to add commas

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I needed to format a number field (999,999,999), coming from a custom field number-format (no other characters permitted in the number entry field). No “$” no commas or decimal points, etc. to output as a normal currency format. When displaying the number I could add a “$” in front of […]

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